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These documents are stored in accordance with the agency’s archival storage standards, according to NARA.

She also stressed the original daguerreotypes are in archival storage and not on display nor have they been lent out to other museums for more than 15 years because of their fragility.

Another “general rule” was that “all email relating in any way to the operation of government should be saved and transferred to archival storage.”

Most purchases the museum makes are preservation-based: archival storage for clothing and quilts, an online database to digitize their collections.

“For archival storage over millions of years, this might be a great application,” he says.